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Health leaders need to use their newfound fame to fight for greener healthcare
DisobeyArt/Shutterstock Health leaders have found themselves projected onto the public stage as never before. Professor Chris Whitty, the UK government’s chief medical adviser, and Sir Patrick Vallance, its chief scientific adviser, have occupied the front pages and dominated the airwaves for months. They have become household names, better known thanContinue Reading
Biden or Trump? Betting markets are more cautious than polls in predicting the 2020 US election
The world is gripped by fevered speculation regarding the outcome of the US presidential election. Will there be a second term for Donald Trump, or will Joe Biden best him at the polls? In a recent tweet, betfair.com, a British online gambling company, showed that more money has already beenContinue Reading
Man with flu-COVID infection found in the US – but he’s not the first
As many of us get closer to our first COVID-19 winter, we have many things to feel optimistic about: vaccine results are on the horizon, mortality rates for those infected have fallen and established therapeutic strategies, such as treatment with the antiviral drug remdesivir, seem to be reducing illness. Unfortunately,Continue Reading
From Make America Great Again to Make America Better: how US history shapes Christianity and politics
When both Joe Biden and Mike Pence wrote opinion pieces in The Christian Post in the final week of the 2020 US campaign, the current and former vice-presidents vied for the Christian vote with theological and political arguments. But, like many politicians before them, they also invoked history. Most politiciansContinue Reading
New diagnostic test rapidly identifies bugs responsible for pneumonia
The device was tested at Addenbroke's hospit create jobs 51/Shutterstock Pneumonia is one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, killing around 2.6 million people a year. In severe pneumonia, the tiny air sacs inside the lungs become filled with so much fluid and pus that patients struggle to breathe. InContinue Reading
US election 2020: how the rival candidates have used music in their campaigns
A 74-year-old man dancing half-heartedly and without much rhythm to the Village People’s YMCA while a host of other people complain about the playlist – it might conjure up an image of the tail end of a wedding reception. In fact, it’s yet another facet of the increasingly surreal popularContinue Reading
War in the time of Neanderthals: how our species battled for supremacy for over 100,000 years
Charles R Knight/Wikimedia Around 600,000 years ago, humanity split in two. One group stayed in Africa, evolving into us. The other struck out overland, into Asia, then Europe, becoming Homo neanderthalensis – the Neanderthals. They weren’t our ancestors, but a sister species, evolving in parallel. Neanderthals fascinate us because ofContinue Reading
Why our obsession with happy endings can lead to bad decisions
We all love a happy ending. Romanno/Shutterstock All’s well that ends well, wrote William Shakespeare in 1623. The words may still seem to ring true today, but turns out they don’t. We have just busted the old myth in a recent brain imaging experiment, published in the Journal of Neuroscience.Continue Reading
What Happens When Novak Djokovic’s Daughter “Takes Over Her Daddy”. See Pic | Tennis News
Novak Djokovic is currently the World No.1 men’s tennis player.© AFP Novak Djokovic’s wife Jelena Djokovic took to twitter to share a photo of the Serbian tennis star, where a blue streak can be seen tied to his hair and dangling in front of him. It is not a lookContinue Reading
US election: six swing states likely to decide who is the next president
With at least 94 million early votes cast by the eve of US election day, Americans are engaged in a highly contested election for the president, one third of the Senate, and all of the House of Representatives. The outbreak and spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally disrupted theContinue Reading